Not the best pass considering the situation. Still, he didn't have to jump for the ball - it's not like he was contesting a kick - so was clearly fair game. In fact, watching the slomo, Arous wouldn't have got smashed hard had he kept his feet on the ground, Warburton doesn't have much forward momentum and it's Arous' jump into him that results in him getting minced.

Actually, if Alain Rolland had reffed the scrums in the semi-final, rather than just letting the Welsh props take a dive every time they came under pressure, France would have walked all over the Welsh. If you're still bitter about what most rational, objective people now agree was a perfectly valid sending off, there's no hope for you.

Sour Welshmen haven't gotten over it yet. Cooper got dumped once. Great tackle, never beyond horizontal, came down on his side/arm, held onto by Kaino (I think) all the way down. The country of Wales seems to have collectively lost the ability to distinguish between a legal dump tackle and a spear or tip.

Nothing in the rulebook about malicious intent, and rightly so. It's a murky grey area open to interpretation. The rules are clear, Rolland made the right call. Pienaar and Dallaglio can bleat all they want, they're wrong.

Here's a thought for you all: most of us will agree that Warburton is now one of the elite number 7s in the world. How often do you see McCaw, Dusautoir, Brussow, Pocock take players off their feet in the tackle? Pretty much never. This probably has something to do with the fact that doing so runs an inherent risk of something going wrong and the tackler paying the price. Better to put in hard conventional hits than run the risk of a red, like Warburton did here.